Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander.

Born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 ( Brulliot says 1560 ) and died at Rome in 1623.

Born about 960.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Born about 595 BC, Croesus received tribute from the Ionian Greeks but was friendlier to the Hellenes than his father had been.

It included two audio commentaries, one featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, the other Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis, Born to Be Wild ( 1995 ) and “ Easy Rider ”: Shaking the Cage ( 1999 ), documentaries about the making and history of the film, television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival, and a new video interview with BBS cofounder Steve Blauner.

# Matilda Born around 1061, died perhaps about 1086.

Born into a lower-class family in Quảng Trị province, French Indochina as Lê Văn Nhuận ; little is known about Lê's family and childhood.

Born into a cultured bourgeois family, Fassbinder had an unconventional childhood about which he would later express grievances in interviews.

She is patron of the Born Free Foundation and passionate about the Free Tibet campaign.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain ( 1944 ), Pontius Pilate ( 1962 ) and his last film, the 1978 flop Born Again, about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.

Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome ; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.

Born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer on 13 November 1922 in Vienna, Werner spent much of his childhood in the care of his grandmother, who entertained him with stories about the Burgtheater, the Austrian state theatre, where he was accepted at the age of eighteen by Lothar Müthel.

" Staring Robin ", a song about a man described by Tim Harries as an " Elizabethan psycho ", was recorded during the Bedlam Born ( 2000 ) sessions, but it was left off the final album as it was deemed by Park Records to be too disturbing.

Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced to Cardinal Richelieu, and became one of the band of writers who carried out the cardinal's literary ideas when he was about thirty years old.

Born at Chester about 1524, he was son of William Whittingham, by his wife, a daughter of Haughton of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.

In 1982, she narrated a book about her life to Venezuelan author and anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos, " Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia " ( My Name is Rigoberta Menchu and this is how my Conscience was Born ), which was translated into five other languages including English and French.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five years old.

In a recent paper ( on pages 285 – 87 ), Steven Gjerstad and Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith describe more fully ( 1 ) the contribution of derivatives to the flow of mortgage funds that supported the housing bubble, ( 2 ) the concerns that Brooksley Born had raised about the dangers inherent in these contracts, ( 3 ) Summers's contribution to their deregulation, and ( 4 ) how these contracts precipitated the collapse of the financial system in 2007 and 2008.

" At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

Two books have been written about him, both authored by Adriana Rubio — Layne Staley: Angry Chair and the more recent, Layne Staley: Get Born Again, which was described as " a ' brand new book ' that has been revised and updated with the inclusion of two new chapters: ' Hate to Feel ' and ' Get Born Again ' as a revival of the acclaimed Angry Chair book.

" On September 28, 2006, Blabbermouth. net reported on a movie project related to Rubio's most recent book on Staley: " According to a press release from ARTS Publications, Argentinean journalist / author Adriana Rubio has been contacted by writer / director Eric Moyer from Philadelphia about turning her biography of Staley, titled Layne Staley: Get Born Again, into a movie.

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

In the middle, Simon embarked on the successful Born at the Right Time Tour and promoted the album with further singles, including " Proof " – accompanied with a humorous video featuring, again, Chevy Chase.

Born into a middle class family in Bray, County Wicklow, he was educated at Christian Brothers College, Monkstown.

Born into a devoutly Christian middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound.

Born on her sister Rebbie's 6th birthday on May 29, 1956, in Gary, Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph Jackson and Katherine Jackson and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet.

Born of very humble parents at Laon before the middle of the 11th century, he is said to have studied under Saint Anselm at Bec, though this is almost certainly incorrect.

Born in Dallas, Texas to an Irish American family from Massachusetts, he was the middle child, and has two brothers who are also actors, Andrew and Luke Wilson.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she came from a middle class-background.

Born at Sant ' Angelo in Pontano in Italy, in what was then the March of Ancona, Nicholas was the son of parents who had been childless into middle age.

Born in Olean, New York, Tomarken was the middle son of Barnett and Pearl Tomarken, who owned Dee ’ s Jewelry store in Olean.

Born James Alfred Orage in Dacre, near Harrogate, in the West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he was generally known as Dickie and he dropped the name James altogether and adopted the middle name Richard.

Born in Glyn Ceiriog in 1942, the son of former Royal Naval Reserves Officer Alan N Hunt OBE and Jessie E E Northrop, David Hunt was the middle child of three, with two sisters.

Born Millicent Vernon Hammond, she was the middle of three children born to renowned politician and later Ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond ( October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956 ) of Louisville, Kentucky and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens ( May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915 ) of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Born in Nikšić to a middle class family ( his father, Radovan, a judge, and his mother, Stana, a nurse ) from the Čevo clan, Đukanović grew up with two siblings: older brother Aco and older sister Ana.

Born in 1936, Ong was the second of five children from a middle class Chinese Singaporean family.

Born in Damascus to a middle class Greek Orthodox Christian family, Aflaq was first educated in the westernized schools of the French Mandate of Syria.

Born in Ootacamund, India into a middle class English family, Hutton subsequently returned to England, attending a school in Illford and getting particularly interested in archaeology, taking part in a number of excavations until 1976 and touring the country's chambered tombs.

Born in Ploieşti into a family of lower middle class origins, the eldest of four male children, he was the son of Ghiţă Ioan, an entrepreneur who was facing insolvency, and his wife Eufrosina ( or Frosa ).

Born in Manchester, Douglas Lowe attended Harrow and Highgate School and excelled immediately as a middle distance runner, winning the Public Schools ' 880 yd ( 805 m ) title in 1920.

Born in the Sub-Balkan town of Karlovo to middle class parents, Levski became an Orthodox monk before emigrating to join the two Bulgarian Legions in Serbia and other Bulgarian revolutionary groups.

Born in San Diego, California, the middle child of a California real estate-developer father and hairstylist mother, Seymour started her modeling career working for local newspapers and department stores in her hometown at the age of 14.

Born in Malvern, Arkansas, Fred Jones moved to Portland, Oregon in middle school and became the Oregon High School Player of the Year for Sam Barlow High School in Gresham, a suburb of Portland.

In the middle of the 19th century, Phineas Taylor ( PT ) Barnum introduces his circus acts as he stands in front of a tent, proclaiming " There Is a Sucker Born Ev ' ry Minute ".

Born to a middle class family in Heraklion, Crete, she distinguished herself academically and politically.